Chapter 166 Let's Do Some Warm-up Exercises

At night, the main courtyard of Prefecture's Mansion was brightly lit. Zhu Zhanghou endured his anger and apologized to Gu Zhen. In front of all the concubines, children and servants of the main family, Zhu Zhanghou felt a burning pain on his face, but he did not dare to provoke Gu Zhen at this time.

Gu Zhen ignored her and wanted to stir her up. At this moment, he was unwilling to stop and asked Zhu Zhanghou to give her an explanation, so he directly interrogated the person who poisoned him in the yard. Zhu yao was so scared that his legs and stomach were twisted. If not for his aunt's help, he might have kneeled down and pleaded guilty.

Looking coldly at everything in the yard, zhu qing stood expressionless by the side and looked at the warehouse from time to time. Whether his fate could be changed depends on whether tonight's event could be accomplished.

At this moment, Su Mianyue and Su Yu were sitting on a roof not far from Prefecture's Mansion, occasionally drinking two sips of osmanthus wine to keep the cold away. Watching boxes of gold and silver jewelry being sent out, Su Mianyue said happily, "This Prefecture is really rich. After this deal is done, he can take a good rest for a while."

"Prefecture is not greedy enough, or else there will be no result of betrayal. Without waiting for the court to punish him, that old man Gu Qinglin will not spare him first." Su Yu's eyes were grim, but he did not want to mention Mu Tinng's name.

"By the way, your other identity, isn't it Shangguan Pei's staff? How is he now?" Su Mianyue suddenly remembered that Shangguan Pei had saved her twice, but she had never deliberately asked about Shangguan Pei in the past three years.

Su Yu lowered his eyes slightly and said mockingly, "Since ancient times, how many of them have ended well?"

"What do you mean?" Su Mianyue couldn't understand for a moment.

"Gu Linng's pillow talk has already made Shangguan Pei unwilling to stay in the capital, and the border has been peaceful recently, so Shangguan Pei has to temporarily remove his armour. He has been drinking to relieve his worries for the past year." Su Yu had to mention the people in the palace. He had some sympathy for Shangguan Pei's situation. After all, that was the person he admired.

Hearing this, Su Mianyue was slightly taken aback, and immediately thought of the temptation to Gu Linng in the palace, as well as the tight doubt that the Gu Family had made a lot of money but was still poor. Su Mianyue asked hurriedly, "Yu, do your people have a special eye on the Gu Family?"

Su Yu shook his head and said, "Although the Gu Family is in power, it is cautious. Only the officials who are outside dare to act, just like Zhu Zhanghou." With that said, Su Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "It's strange to say that there are a lot of silver that Zhu Zhanghou collects every year, and there are others who make money for Gu Qinglin, but they have never seen anyone send these yellow and white things to the Gu's Mansion. The Gu's Mansion also doesn't have any big expenses. There are only a few ancestral properties under their name. I have investigated them, which is just enough to cover the expenses of the Gu's Mansion."

With a slight frown, Su Mianyue asked, "Do you know which country the Gu's Mansion is in private with?"

"I don't know." Su Mianyue shook his head again and asked, "You suspect the Gu Family..."

Su Yu didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was obvious. Su Mianyue nodded, "When I was in the palace, Gu Linng had arranged for me to be assassinated several times. It was not from the Tianlan, and every time it involved Mu Chen or Shangguan Pei. Later, I tried to test her. Gu Linng's reaction was very strange. I suspected it at that time, but after leaving the palace, I didn't want to meddle. I have nothing to do with who lives or dies between Gu Linng and Mu Tinng. But now they are the main culprits of the Su Family's death, especially the people of the Su Family. They should not be able to tolerate the existence of the Su Family, so I want them to pay in blood."

Su Mianyue's tone was faint, as if she were talking about the taste of the osmanthus wine in her hands, but Su Yu understood that she was really killing.

"About the Gu Family, I'll send someone to investigate the truth." Slightly lowering his eyelashes, Su Yu did not say that he already had some clues. After all, that clue was not enough to give the Gu Family a fatal blow. It was not too late to tell Su Mianyue after confirming and grasping the evidence.

"On Prefecture's side, let him jump around for a few days after taking the things. This time, he made a big mistake. He will jump over the wall in a hurry. Maybe it will give us an unexpected surprise." Su Mianyue looked at Prefecture's Mansion coldly and saw that the ants had left, "It seems that this mysterious man is still a soft-hearted person. Prefecture's Mansion is so rich that he only moved one warehouse and stopped."

With a gentle smile, Su Yu said softly, "Yue is kind. If you want to lighten the sins of Zhu Zhanghou, I will help you."

A copper coin was shot into the dark, and a dark guard immediately came to receive his orders. Su Yu whispered a few words and saw the dark guard flash away. Then a group of black-shirted men searched Prefecture's Mansion for money and property.

Nodding with satisfaction, Su Mianyue looked at Su Yu and smiled, "It's cold at night. Let's go and warm up."

Looking at Su Mianyue's smiling face, Su Yu nodded, and the two of them flew away.

Su Yu and Su Mianyue quickly found the location of the harvest and watched Su Yu's men quickly move their belongings. Su Mianyue asked, "Are there any survivors left?"

Zhuifeng looked up at Su Mianyue and saw that she was dressed in red and looked valiant, like a brilliant firework under the moonlight. For a moment, she was a little dazzled, but it was only a moment before she returned to normal, and no one could tell.

Knowing how much Su Yu valued Su Mianyue, Zhuifeng replied, "There's a seriously injured man who's in a coma."

Looking down Zhuifeng's fingers, he saw a man in black with his right chest pierced lying on the ground, breathing weakly. Su Mianyue frowned, a little worried that this man would not be able to return alive.

"You don't have to interfere in the follow-up." Su Yu waved his hand and said, "Register overnight and send 50 % of the goods to us tomorrow morning."

Zhuifeng took the order and left, quickly having all the finances shipped away. As for the people who were still busy in Prefecture's Mansion, they would meet up with them when they got their things.

Su Mianyue and Su Yu cleaned up the battlefield, made sure there were no clues left, then hid in the dark, waiting for the seriously injured man in black to wake up and report back.

An hour later, Su Mianyue looked at the courtyard in front of him and frowned, but did not say much. He jumped up the roof with Su Yu and heard the conversation clearly.

"My lord, we have been robbed. The brothers sent out this time are all dead." The man in black breathed heavily as he spoke, and the strong smell of blood made the adult frown.

"What's going on? Isn't this operation very secretive? Did Prefecture find any clues?" The lord asked coldly, not mourning for his dead subordinates, nor caring about the injuries of his dying subordinates.

"I don't know. A group of people twice as many as us suddenly appeared in the outskirts of the country. They all went straight to the gates of their lives. In less than a quarter of an hour, they killed all of us. When they woke up, they found that their belongings were gone." The man in black replied in a low voice, not noticing the malice in the eyes of the adults.

"Oh, no." The lord let out a low cry and immediately called the man in black and said, "Follow me."

The man in black did not doubt that he was following him. He saw that the lord had opened a mechanism, a small door opened under the wall of the hall, and a corridor appeared in front of him.

The two of them jumped down, and Su Yu and Su Mianyue entered the house. They looked at the closed passageway. Su Mianyue wanted to chase after them, but Su Yu stopped them.

"There are usually traps set up in the secret tunnel. This person already suspects that someone is following us. It's not good for us to go down now, or we can check tomorrow," Su Yu persuaded.

Su Mianyue thought about it, then nodded and said, "Even if you follow them, you don't know who the mastermind behind them is. This matter is not urgent. It's the same as keeping your people on Zhu Qing. You don't have to risk yourself."

Su Yu agreed with Su Mianyue, and his intuition told him that Su Mianyue should not be involved in this matter. After a round of fruitless search, the two went back to the restaurant to rest, leaving for Qinghua Temple after the distribution of the loot was completed tomorrow.

As for Prefecture's Mansion, Su Mianyue just wanted to see the final result and didn't have time to spend with them here.